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otherwise, shall meet with no lawful impediment in the prosecution 

 of their just rights. 



Article 6th. That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor 

 any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons, for or 

 by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present 

 war, and that no person shall on that account suffer any future loss 

 or damage either in his person, liberty or property; and that those 

 who may be in confinement on such charges, at the time of the rati- 

 fication of the treaty in America, shall be immediately set at liberty, 

 and the prosecutions so commenced be discontinued. 



Article 7th. There shall be a firm and perpetual peace, between 

 His Britannic Majesty and the said States, and between the subjects 

 of the one and the citizens of the other, Wherefore all hostilities both 

 by sea and by land shall then immediately cease ; all prisoners on both 

 sides shall be set at liberty, and His Britannic Majesty shall, with 

 all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction or carry- 

 ing away any negroes, or other property of the American inhabitants 

 withdraw all his armies garrisons and fleets from the said United 

 States, and from every port, place, and harbour within the same; 

 leaving in all fortifications the American artillery that may be 

 therein : and shall also order and cause all archives, records, deeds 

 and papers belonging to any of the said States, or their citizens, 

 which in the course of the war may have fallen into the hands of his 

 officers to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper States 

 and persons to whom they belong. 



Article 8th. The navigation of the River Mississippi from its 

 source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the sub- 

 jects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. 



Article 9th. In case it should so happen that any place or terri- 

 tory belonging to Great Britain, or the United States, should be 

 conquered by the arms of either, from the other, before the arrival 

 of these articles in America, it is agreed that the same shall be re- 

 stored, without difficulty, and without requiring any compensation. 



Done at Paris, the thirtieth day of November, in the year One 

 thousand seven hundred Eighty Two. 



RICHARD OSWALD (L. s.) 



JOHN ADAMS (L. s. 



B FRANKLIN (L. s. 



JOHN JAY (L. s. 



HENRY LAIJRHNS. (L. s.) 

 Witness 



The Words [and Henry Laurens] between the fifth and sixth Lines 

 of the first Page; and the Words [or carrying away any Negroes, 

 or other Property of the American Inhabitants] between the seventh 

 and eighth Lines of the eighth Page, being first interlined 



CALEB WHITEFOORD Secretary to the British Commission 

 W. T. FRANKLIN Secy to the American Commission 



Separate Article. 



It is hereby understood and agreed, that in case Great Britain at 

 the Conclusion of the present War, shall recover, or be put in pos- 



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